Excerpt from Specific Medication and Specific Medicines, 1874: Revised, With an Appendix Containing the Articles Published on the Subject Since the First Edition; And a Report of Cases Illustrating Specific Medication That it was a great uncertainty, as commonly followed, we are well assured. The records of disease, the mortality tables, and the resultant lesions from the mal-administration of medicines, abundantly testify to this. This stands confessed in the writings of the most prominent men in the medical profession to-day, who unite in deprecating the use of the older treatment oi' disease, and the greater safety of the expectant plan - which is really diet and rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.